Xavier Zubiri
Xavier Zubiri ( born December 4, 1898 in Donostia- San Sebastián, † September 21, 1983 in Madrid) was a Spanish philosopher. He represented a Christian existentialism.
From 1926 to 1936 studied Zubiri theology, philosophy and the natural sciences in Madrid. He was a student of José Ortega y Gasset and Martin Heidegger. After the Spanish Civil War, he was from 1940 to 1942 professor of the history of philosophy in Barcelona, before he settled down as a private scholar in Madrid.
Philosophy
Zubiri sat critically with positivism, pragmatism and historicism. The crisis of modern science is, according to him can only be overcome by a further-developed ontology of nature, with philosophy and ( Catholic ) theology on the one hand and science on the other form complementary ways of knowing reality. Man, a radical ontological nothingness, have the time determined by an individual back-donation to God task to choose themselves and realize in his actions.
Works
- Naturaleza, Historia, Dios (formed in 1944, printed 1948)
- Sobre la esencia. Madrid in 1962; German: from the nature, Munich 1968
- Inteligencia sentiente. Madrid 1980
- Inteligencia y logos. Madrid 1982
- Inteligencia y razón. Madrid 1983
- El hombre y Dios. Madrid, 1984; English: Man and God, 2009 ISBN 978-0761847021
- Sobre el hombre. Madrid 1986
- Estructura dinámica de la realidad. Madrid, 1989; English: Dynamic Structure of Reality, Urbana / Chicago 2003, ISBN 978-0252028229
- Sobre el sentimiento y la volición. Madrid 1992
- El problema de la historia de las Filosofico religiones. Madrid 1993
- Los problemas de la fundamental Metafísica occidental. Madrid 1994; English: The Fundamental Problems of Western Metaphysics, 2009, ISBN 978-0761848776
- Sobre el problema de la filosofía, fascículo 3 Madrid 1996
- Espacio. Materiality. Tiempo. Madrid 1996
- El problema del hombre teologal: Cristianismo. Madrid 1997
- El hombre y la verdad. Madrid 1999
- Primeros Escritos ( 1921-1926 ). Madrid 1999
- Sobre la realidad. Madrid 2001
- El hombre. Lo real y lo unreal. Madrid 2005
- Tres del ser humano dimensiones. Individual, social, histórica. Madrid 2006
- Cursos universitarios. Madrid 2007
- Escritos menores. Madrid 2007
Secondary literature
- Thomas Fornet- Ponse: y Apalategui Zubiri, Xavier. In: Biographic- bibliographic church encyclopedia ( BBKL ). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8, Sp 1555-1597. (Articles / Articles beginning possibly in the Internet Archive )
- T. Fornet- Ponse: Xavier Zubiri read intercultural. Nordhausen 2010
- W. Schmidt: Option for the Poor? Epistemological, social science and social ethical considerations to reduce poverty. Munich and Mering 2005, 56-143
- H. Widmer: The structural principle of reality. Aspects of being model after the Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri. In: Freiburger Journal of Philosophy and Theology ( FZPhTh ). 21 1974 67-138
- The Xavier Zubiri Review: Link to the homepage